Congressman Sherman serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Financial Services. He has been an effective advocate for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and for the Rim of the Valley Corridor study. The Santa Susana Field Laboratorylies within Congressman Sherman's 30th Congressional District.

SSMPA visitedCongressman Sherman on March 19, 2014, to discuss our campaignto arrange responsibly for the future of the former

Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Our campaign urges the National Park Service to step forward now to arrange to take over the 450-acre NASA-administered piece of the SSFL, after NASA completes its cleanup,

and preserve it as open space and parkland forever.

Congressman Sherman supports future use of SSFL properties as open space and parkland after the cleanup is completed.

SSMPA thanks the Congressman and his staff for helping to expand the conversation about future end-use of this federally-owned land.

Senator Pavley serves as the Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. She also chairs a Select Committee on Climate Change. The Senator has been a long-time opponent of the sale, purchase and use of anticoagulant rodenticides that are sickening and killing pets and wildlife.

SSMPA visited Senator Pavley on October 28, 2013, to discuss our campaign to arrange responsibly for the future of the former

Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Our campaign urges the National Park Service to step forward now to arrange to take over the 450-acre NASA-administered piece of the SSFL, after NASA completes its cleanup,

and preserve it as open space and parkland forever.

Senator Pavley supports future use of SSFL properties as open space and parkland after the cleanup is completed.

SSMPA thanks the Senator and her staff for helping to expand the conversation about future end-use of this federally-owned land

with other key elected officials.

SSMPA met with staff members at Councilmember Mitch Englander's (LA CD12) office to ask them to join in the conversation about a responsible future for SSFL.

invited SSMPA to his office on July 18, to hear more about our campaign to Preserve the Simi Hills.

Our campaign urges the National Park Service to step forward now to arrange to take over the 450-acre NASA-administered piece of the Santa Susana Field Lab, after NASA completes its cleanup, and preserve it as open space parkland forever.

SSMPA thanks Assemblymember Wilk for his interest in planning now to provide a responsible future for the SSFL lands of the Simi Hills.

Just five miles west of Chatsworth lie almost 3,000 stunningly beautiful acres of Simi Hills ridge top. They are mostly open space in a vital, shrinking wildlife habitat corridor. They are the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, also known as "Rocketdyne"or "Boeing." Some of that land is undergoing major decontamination, expected to be complete within the next four to seven years. The SSFL land is awesome terrain with many cultural assets and we need your help to keep it in the public domain, prevent opportunistic development, and protect this strategic wildlife habitat corridor.

photo: Boeing Co.

More than 400 acres of that land is owned by the federal government and is administered by NASA. NASA has declared that it will complete a thorough cleanup of its property, but has no future use for the land. In effect, the federal property is up for sale to a future owner now.

SSMPA's position is that the Simi Hills must be protected from commercial development and preserved for the benefit of future generations of people and wildlife. To that end, SSMPA has advanced a resolution calling on the U.S. National Park Service to step forward now to arrange acquisition of the NASA property after the cleanup has been declared complete by the State of California.

So far, thirteen local councils and organizations have passedresolutions to support the National Park Service's eventual acquisition of federally-owned properties at the Santa Susana Field Lab site, following the site's completion of cleanup.

The resolution, based on SSMPA's proposal, calls for the land to be preserved as open space forever.

The Chatsworth Neighborhood Council,

the West Hills NC,

the Granada Hills South NC,

the Chatsworth Community Coord. Council,

the Canoga Park NC,

the Ventura County Archaeological Society,

the Valley Alliance of NCs (VANC)

the Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council,

the Reseda Neighborhood Council,

the Equestrian Trails Inc. - Corral 54

the Porter Ranch NC,

the Winnetka NC, and

the Granada Hills North NC

all recently passed their resolutions, based on SSMPA's proposal. SSMPA is calling on several other neighbor-hood councils and community organizations to approve their own resolutions to the same end.

SSMPA is also circulating a companion petition for individuals to sign (700+ signatures to date). The petition states:

"I support prompt action by the National Park Service to arrange acquisition of property in the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and preserve it forever as open space and parkland."